Allah is beautiful and loves beauty. Arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down on people.” (1).

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Likewise, the practice and conduct of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning food was that he neither refused what was available nor went to unnecessary trouble to obtain what was unavailable. He ate whatever wholesome food was brought to him, unless he found it distasteful, in which case he left it without declaring it forbidden. He never criticized any food: if he desired it, he ate it; otherwise, he left it. Thus, he refrained from eating the spiny-tailed lizard because he was not accustomed to it. He did not forbid it to his community; rather, it was eaten at his table while he watched.

He ate sweets and honey and loved them both. He ate camel meat, mutton, chicken, bustard meat, wild donkey and rabbit meat (2), and seafood. He ate roasted meat (3), as well as fresh and dried dates.

He drank milk, both plain and mixed, sawīq (a grain-meal drink), and honey mixed with water. He also drank water in which dates had been steeped.

He ate khazīrah, a soup made from milk and flour. He ate cucumber with fresh dates. He ate dried curds. He ate dates with bread, and bread and vinegar (4). He ate tharīd, which is bread with meat. He ate bread with rendered fat, that is, melted animal fat. He ate some roasted liver and dried meat. He ate cooked gourd